Wednesday 6th April, 2011
We have a great range of pre-conference workshops available. Details below.
Health Coaching
Facilitators: Leona Didsbury, & Charlene Pretorius, Health Psychologists, ProCare Health
Intended audience: This workshop will be particularly useful for nurses, doctors and allied health professionals implementing chronic care programmes such as Care Plus and specialist nurse clinics.
Overview: This workshop will provide a brief introduction to the area of health coaching and opportunity to learn and practice a number of practical evidence-based skills for communicating and working collaboratively with clients/patients.
Topics will include: What is health coaching? Introduction to some frameworks for developing an
individual health coaching programme. Eliciting and challenging health inhibiting beliefs and thinking.
Practical skills and approaches for use within day to day consultations. Integrating health coaching within your clinical practice.
Cost: now $ 175 for half a day.
Time: 9.00am - 12.30pm
Venue: Kowhai Room, Greenlane Clinical Centre, Auckland
Self-management Support - Understanding and implementing self-management support for people with chronic conditions: what’s in it for individuals, practitioners and society?
Facilitator: Professor Richard Osborne. Deakin University, Melbourne 
Intended Audience: Practitioners, managers, policymakers, researchers.
Overview: This workshop will cover the available models of self management support, including their practicality, effectiveness and the importance of tailoring. It will also cover approaches to evaluation, quality and monitoring for evaluation and quality improvement. Finally, recent international innovations to improve equity and access, including web-based approaches will be covered.
Cost: after 10th March, $ 175 for half a day
Time: 9.00am - 12.30pm
Venue: Moved to Waipuna Hotel & Conference Centre (Updated)
Health literacy and chronic conditions - what is the link between the two?
Facilitator: Susan Reid. Workbase NZ
Intended Audience: Health professionals and managers.
Overview: This workshop will discuss the link between low health literacy and chronic care outcomes. Susan will discuss a framework for approaching health literacy within your organisation and showcase tools that can be used by health professionals with chronic care patients.
Time: 1pm - 4.30pm
Cost: after 10th March, $175
Venue: Waipuna Hotel & Conference Centre, Mt Wellington, Auckland (updated)
Flinders Programme - Update & focus on effective implementation
Facilitators: Associate Professor Sharon Lawn , Flinders Human Behaviour & Health Research Unit &
Charlene Pretorius, ProCare Health 
Intended Audience: This workshop will be particularly useful for anyone who has done the Flinders training and would like tips, support and resources for implementing it successfully within their area of practice.
Overview: The workshop will provide a brief update and review of the Flinders tools, in particular recent changes to develop the NZ version. Most of the workshop will focus on ideas, resources and skills for implementing the Flinders programme effectively into clinical practice whether it is general practice or hospital based services. A number of examples will be provided, along with time to discuss specific questions and brainstorm possible solutions. The purpose of the workshop is to: Promote and explain the updated tools. Generate interest and energy to implement Flinders more effectively within both hospital and general practice teams, with presentation of existing successful examples. Have time for discussion about issues, barriers, enablers experienced in NZ and Australia. Facilitate peer support and ongoing networks re Flinders within both NZ and Australia.
Cost: after 10th March, $175
Time: 1.00pm to 4.30pm
Venue: Kowhai Room, Greenlane Clinical Centre, Greenlane, Auckland
Working together in inter-professional health teams
Facilitator: Dr Janice Chesters. Waitemata DHB 
Overview: Almost all clinicians providing care for people with long term or chronic conditions claim to be working as part of a ‘health care team’. As Dr Heather Wellington says’ ‘The view that a poor team player can be a good clinician is now not accepted’ Yet the day to day reality of health care may be more like the view expressed by the Garling Special Commission 2008: ‘A new model of teamwork will be required to replace the old individual and independent silos of professional care’. While silos are essential so is better team work. In this workshop we will spend time thinking and talking about what teamwork requires; we will then explore practical ways to bring these essentials into the health care environment; finally we will identify and explore some very practical ways that we can work together with patients, clients, consumers and fellow clinicians to provide better and smarter care.
Cost: after 10th March, $175 for half a day
Time: 1pm - 4.30pm
Venue: Akoranga Campus, Building AG, Room AG127, North Shore CIty
Co-design - Working with patients to improve healthcare services: an introduction to co-design
Facilitator: Hilary Boyd 
Intended Audience: Anyone in healthcare who has an interest in improving services to better meet the need of consumers.
Overview: Co-design focuses on understanding and improving patients’ experiences of services as well as the services themselves. This 3-hour workshop will introduce you to the co-design concept, how it has been used successfully overseas, its stages and methods. The workshop will provide you with a suite of practical tools that you can apply in your organisation.
Time: 9.00am - 12.30pm
Cost: $200 includes a copy of Co-Design Toolkit.
Venue: Akoranga Campus, Building AG, Room AG127, North Shore City
Motivational Interviewing - Motivational interviewing in healthcare Motivational Interviewing Flyer
Facilitator: Dr Mark Wallace-Bell PhD RN.
Venue: Heart Foundation seminar room, Kalmia Road, Ellerslie. 
Intended Audience: anyone interested to learn some introductory level skills in motivational interviewing.
Overview: Motivational interviewing is a guiding patient centered approach that helps patients explore and resolve ambivalence about behavioral change. MI focuses on developing intrinsic motivation to change behavior. It has been shown to be effective in the primary care settings with smoking cessation, hazardous drinking, physical activity, nutrition and chronic disease. MI is a brief intervention. Research indicates that its effects are enduring after only 1-2 sessions. MI is not a set of techniques to trick or cajole a patient into behavior change or to achieve compliance with treatment. MI is a skillful clinical style for eliciting from patients their own good reasons for making behavior changes in the interest of their health. It is an interpersonal approach that seeks to reduce resistance, explore ambivalence, develop discrepancy and intrinsic motivation to change.
Venue: Heart Foundation, 9 Kalmia St, Ellerslie, Auckland
Cost: $285 per person, full day including lunch, morning & afternoon teas.
Time: 9 - 4pm (Sorry, workshop full)
For facilitator information, visit the speaker page.